Defining Alert Manager initialization parameters

Use the following procedure to enable

Alert Manager

for initialization within its own PAS.

Tip

This task is optional for all BMC AMI Ops products.
If you want to use Alert Manager, this task is required. For information about Alarm Management and Alert Manager, see the Using-Alarm-Management.

Alert Manager cannot reside in the same BBI-SS PAS as any other BMC AMI Ops product.

The BBISSPxx and BBIJNT00 parameter members, which are used in this task, support the substitution of system variables.

Alert Manager requires its own BBISSPxx member. This member cannot be shared by any other BBI-SS PAS.

Other considerations are as follows:

The BBISSPxx member for Alert Manager resides in a separate parameter library with a low-level qualifier of MVAPARM.
You should not include the UBBPARM data set in the BBPARM concatenation of the Alert Manager PAS JCL.

To update BBISSPxx for Alert Manager

Specify the following PRODUCT parameter:PRODUCT=MVA
Note
PRODUCT=MVA must be the only PRODUCT parameter in the BBISSPxx member for Alert Manager. If other PRODUCT parameters are found, Alert Manager will not initialize.
Specify the ALRTRCVE parameter as follows:ALRTRCVE=YES
YES indicates that this Alert Manager PAS is eligible to receive alerts from other BMC products. The default is NO.
Specify the CASID parameter as follows:CASID=ssid
ssid is the four-character subsystem ID of the CAS to which the Alert Manager PAS will connect.
(Optional) Specify the AUDIT parameter as follows:AUDIT=YES|NO
This parameter defines whether a request to delete an alert on an Alert Manager view should be entered as an audit record in the BBI-SS journal.
The default value is NO.

Specify the TARGET parameter as follows:

TARGET=subsys,TYPE=MVS,SUBSYS=subsys

subsys is the subsystem that is specified in the MVALSS parameter of the Alert Manager PAS started task procedure.